The Migraine Hotel

A combination of verse and prose poetry 'The Migraine Hotel' is Luke Kennard's third collection and very much a sequel to 'The Harbour Beyond the Movie'. The voices continue to explore the territory opened up by Harbour at once satiric stricken sincere and bitingly sarcastic combined with a kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging with a poem as a reader. The prose poems are prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire which is to say they read more like grouchy comic monologues with unreliable narrators than prose-verse characterised by excessive lyricism.